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Journal Register Company to Terminate SEC Reporting

YARDLEY, PA--(Marketwire - May 1, 2008) - Journal Register Company (PINKSHEETS: JRCO)
announced today that it intends to file a Form 15 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) in order to terminate registration of the
Company's common stock and suspend its obligation to file current and
periodic reports with the SEC. As previously announced, the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE) suspended trading in the Company's common stock on April
16, 2008 based upon the low stock price and has filed with the SEC an
application on Form 25 to delist the Company's common stock.

The Company's board of directors considered several factors in making this
decision, including the following:

-- The limited number of stockholders of record;
-- The significant annual expense of compliance with the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and
-- The suspension and application for delisting by the NYSE of the
Company's common stock.

The board of directors concluded that in light of the NYSE's action to
delist the shares and the Company's limited ability to access the public
capital markets for its foreseeable financing needs, the advantages of
being a public company are outweighed by the significant accounting, legal,
competitive and administrative costs associated with the reporting
requirements for public companies. The board of directors believes that
deregistration will result in significant savings to the Company, permit
management to focus more completely on the Company's business operations
and enable the Company to redeploy resources currently devoted to
compliance reporting. The Company intends to continue: (i) to report to
its stockholders in accordance with Delaware law and its Bylaws; (ii) to
report its quarterly and annual financial results in press releases; (iii)
to engage an independent accounting firm to perform an annual audit of the
Company's financial statements; and (iv) to maintain many of the corporate
governance improvements the Company has made in recent years.

Upon the filing of the Form 15, the Company's obligation to file certain
reports and forms with the SEC, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, will
cease immediately. The Company expects the deregistration to become
effective ninety days after the Form 15 is filed with the SEC. The Company
anticipates that its common stock will continue to be quoted on the Pink
Sheets®, a centralized electronic quotation service for over-the-counter
securities, to the extent market makers demonstrate an interest in trading
in the Company's common stock. However, the Company can give no assurance
that trading in its stock will continue in the Pink Sheets or in any other
forum.

About Journal Register Company

Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. media company. Journal Register
Company owns 22 daily newspapers and 302 non-daily publications. Journal
Register Company currently operates 229 individual Web sites that are
affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily publications and
its network of employment Web sites. These Web sites can be accessed at
www.JournalRegister.com. All of the Company's operations are strategically
clustered in six geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan;
Connecticut; Greater Cleveland; and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson
regions of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of 20
employment Web sites.

Safe-Harbor

This release contains forward-looking information about Journal Register
Company that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for
forward-looking statements provided by the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not
historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of
forward-looking terminology such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will,"
"should," "project," "plan," "seek," "intend," or "anticipate" or the
negative thereof or comparable terminology. These forward-looking
statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause
actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to statements related to the ability of the Company's
common stock to trade in the over-the-counter market and whether the
Company will realize significant savings from the termination of its public
reporting requirements. Additional risk factors are outlined in the
Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly
update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events, or otherwise.